ACCT 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Financial Audit, Certified Public Accountant, Retained Earnings

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You cannot properly understand topic 4 if you do not understand the concepts covered in topics 1 through 3. Which accounts are increased (decreased) with debit entries. The main thing that topic 4 adds to topics 1 - 3 is an understanding of how to record transactions in the debit-credit format, in addition to the fset format. Expense accounts are increased with debits, but increasing expenses cause equity to decrease. With these rules one can develop the remainder of the debit-credit system using logic. However, here is something that may help you remember the debt (left) credit (right) system. Notice that accounts on the left-side of the accounting equation, assets, are increased with left-side (i. e. , debit) entries and accounts on the right-side of the accounting equation, liabilities and owners" equity, are increased with right-side (i. e. , credit) entries. Accounts that are increased with debit (left-side) entries include:

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